Companies Urged Not To View EU Privacy Law As A Barrier To Conducting Decentralized Trials
Executive Summary
A senior regulator from the European Medicines Agency says that while the EU General Data Protection Regulation can be intellectually challenging, the law is needed, and it should not deter companies from conducting decentralized clinical trials because of concerns they might have over the use of digital tools to capture and process patient and trial data.
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